Iowa-based poet and translator Christopher Merrill has been tweeting from the first annual Tripoli International Poetry Festival, going on now in the Libyan capital. The festival, which opened April 28 […]
From the Egypt Independent: Tarek Eltayeb’s “The Palm House” has the beginnings of a strong and important novel. For the first 160 pages, the Sudanese author’s second book goes roaring along. […]
Soor el-Azbakeya (The Azbakeya Fence) is Cairo’s oldest book market. The market, once set by the fence shown at right, played an important role in Egypt’s cultural and intellectual life […]
Sharjah has set themselves the mission of becoming “the premier reading festival for children in the region.” It’s hard to think of any children’s reading festival that competes: Cairo closed […]
The 2012 Palestine Festival of Literature opens in just two short weeks. Organizers have set themselves an even greater-than-usual challenge this year in that the fest is set to be […]
“Of all the pieces we’ve ever published,” Words Without Borders wrote yesterday on Facebook, “we get the most queries about Magdy El Shafee’s graphic novel Metro.“ You know the story: […]
This reading, organized by the “Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here” project, was held last month at the Double Elephant Print Workshop in the UK. Al-Mutanabbi founder Beau Beausoleil notes about […]
At my recent talk at the downtown AUC, I made passing reference to a “clash of editorial cultures” — with ironic hat-tip to the work of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis halfway […]
Several dozen poets and scholars are set to appear at Tripoli’s first post-Ghaddafi International Poetry Festival at the end of this month. The festival boasts a number of poetic stars, […]
